GREY’S ANATOMY “Slow Night, So Long” Review

GREY’S ANATOMY “Slow Night, So Long” Review

This week’s
Grey’s Anatomy finds Yang still a mess, Avery turning into a mess, and the
attendings getting messy drunk. It may also be the first time we have seen the
residents working the late night shift without any attendings besides Owen.

As I said
last time, and probably the time before that, they have got to do something
with Yang. Is this the new way that Grey’s handles their characters? Are the
writers set on creating some traumatic event every season that will lead at
least one, but probably more, character down a spiraling path of depression,
insanity, and addiction? Haven’t we seen this many times before? I believe it
has occurred with Meredith, Owen, Karev, Izzy, and more recently, Derek, Lexi
and now Yang and perhaps Avery. Enough! Can’t these characters get back to
their careers and their lives? Isn’t there enough drama surrounding patients,
procedures, skills, balancing work and personal lives to carry us through? I
really just want to get back to medicine. I also really want Yang to get back
to medicine. It was ridiculous to have her get a job tending bar at Joe’s and
even more ridiculous for her to drink so much on her first night that she gets
fired and ends up giving lap dances to a bachelor party. Then Derek offers
advice such as “keep having fun.” He is not even qualified to give advice. Yes,
he went through the same trauma, but not exactly. He was shot. Yang was held at
gunpoint while trying to save his life. Is one more traumatic than the other?
Not necessarily, however, I do not think someone who barely got himself together
is the one that should be interfering. Heck, if not for Meredith putting her
foot down, Derek would still be driving 120 miles an hour on the freeway.
Shouldn’t someone put their foot down with Yang? Or at least get her some
counseling?